Steve Jones is the editor of SQLServerCentral.com and visits a wide variety of data related topics in his daily editorial. Steve has spent years working as a DBA and general purpose Windows administrator, primarily working with SQL Server since it was ported from Sybase in 1990. You can follow Steve on Twitter at twitter.com/way0utwest

Archives: September 2007

I almost forgot to record the podcast for tomorrow's editorial. In case you're a glutton for punishment, it's here. I'd spent over an hour polishing off the writing part of this in the am, not having finished it on Friday.

I responded in an interesting thread this morning where someone was looking for advice on what to monitor on their SQL Servers. As expected, I can't find the thread right now and I'm rather busy, but suffice it to say someone was wondering what to monitor on their SQL Servers…

It's an interesting question that we had come up, and honestly I'm not completely sure what I want. I'll describe it a bit here and then you can send comments to me (sjones at sqlservercentral.com) or post them in the poll I've set up.

We had a development meeting today with my publishing team (meaning I'm on the team, not leading it) and the developers. We went over some of the bugs and issues we're having. Overall it's not too many bugs, but mostly issues with changes in workslow and…

As with any project, despite being fairly pleased with the final product, there were bugs. In fact, quite a few issues that cropped up,which we hadn't seen in testing. Of course we could have done more testing, but part of that is knowing what to test and part of that…

I haven't seen a lot of sessions at the 2007 Summit, but I did go through 4 or 5 across the week and I noticed a few things in all of them. There were some first time presenters, and some nervous ones as well, but even the experienced ones could…

Editorial coming next week, but so far this is amazing to me. Microsoft's stealth updates of their client update tool. Typical explanation from the PM, "We think it's necessary so you can get updated". It's the arrogance that we know what's best and the disbelief that we wouldn't agree…

I'm working on getting a small studio set up for some podcasting of the editorials. That means I put a mike on my desk along with a pop filter. I tried to do some basic recording, but the problem so far is that the levels are too low. I tried…